The book has been digitized now. I can see it at http://www.kb.dk/e-mat/dod/130019427200.pdf
You may or may not be able to see it.
Regards, Ole
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen ole@palnatoke.orgwrote:
I have now ordered "Glossarium norvagicum, eller, Forsøg paa en Samling af saadanne rare norske Ord som gemeenlig ikke forstaaes af danske Folk, tilligemed en Fortegnelse paa norske Mænds og Qvinders Navne, Det fælles Sprog til Oplysning og Forbedring" from 1749 to find out :-)
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Gray jonathan.gray@okfn.orgwrote:
Great - thanks Ole!
So - from the point of view of prospective reusers - does this mean that e-books from DOD can be freely circulated and reused (as per opendefinition.org)? E.g. will scanned e-books or digital editions be made available with a legal waiver (Public Domain Mark / CC0) or equivalent "no rights reserved" legal disclaimers?
J.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen <ole@palnatoke.org
wrote:
The library assumes that everything pre-1900 is out of copyright, and yes: There are two projects - e-books on demand (EOD) and digitizing on demand (DOD). EOD is an Europeana project where the user pays for time spent (iirc), while DOD is Royal Library only, and free. The time frames are as you mentioned, Jonathan.
Oh, David: please do not move too fast - the people involved in the DOD project need to catch their collective breaths (I also need some of the to write Wikipedia articles) :-)
-Ole
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Jonathan Gray jonathan.gray@okfn.orgwrote:
Great news!
While it looks like pre-1600 and 1601-1700 will be only available via EEBO for people outside DK (which requires a fairly hefty institutional subscription fee?), the 1701-1900 texts appear to be freely available? Does anyone know about the legal status / license / terms of use of these texts?
J.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen < ole@palnatoke.org> wrote:
Hi!
The Royal Library in Copenhagen has started making free e-books on demand from Danish 1701-1900 books in their collections.
By doing this, they get more usage but less wear and tear and more space in the reading room :-)
More on http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/samling/dod/index.html
Regards, Ole
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On 11/08/2012 01:53 PM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote:
The book has been digitized now. I can see it at http://www.kb.dk/e-mat/dod/130019427200.pdf
Looking at this file, pdfinfo says it was created by Finereader Recognition Server and that the page size is 595.44 × 841.68 pts. If "pts" is 1/72 of an inch, this would mean 8.27 × 11.69 inches, close to letter size, which is clearly unrealistic. I would guess that the pages of the physical book is roughly half of that or 4-5 × 6-7 inches. The images are 1170 × 1873 pixels, and I would estimate the scanning resolution to be in the range 250 to 300 dpi. That's good enough.
The included OCR text looks like this for a text page (page 20 of the PDF, paginated -12-):
ventede den, men meente jeg forstoed ncr- sten alt Norsk, fisen jeg t mine yngre Aar ogsaa havde varet her nogen tort Tltd, og da langt lcrttere kom til rette t daglig Samtale. Imidlertid blev jkg snart vaec at Adflilligheven beroede paa den Kster og Vesterlandske äisleÄcs heel store og
It's not bad that it read "forstoed", with the long "s" and the old spelling "oe". But on the second line "siden" was read as "fisen", which is incorrect. Not a single "æ" is correct, which is odd for trying to recognize Danish, while "ä" erroneously appears on the last line of this excerpt. This indicates that it really tries to recognize the German alphabet, albeit with a Danish dictionary.
This is "the usual quality" for OCR of blackletter (fraktur), and not radically good.
I uploaded the work to http://runeberg.org/glossnor/ with the OCR text provided. It's now ready for your proofreading.